Improvement in picker-cushions for looms



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GEORGE L. RICHARDSON AND JAMES O. MOODY, OE` BRUNSWICK,

MAINE.

Letters Patent .Na-92,471, dated J'alyk 13, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN PICKER-CUSHIONS FOR. LOOMS.

The Schedule referred to in these Lettera Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

description thereof, which will enable others to make and use our invention, reference being had to the acforming part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a bottom view of the metallic ring, showing the position of the nails thereof in dotted lines.

Figure 2 is a top View of a picker-cushion, with the metallic ring attached thereto.

Figure 3 is u side vicw ofthe same.

"he use vof leather in the construction of pickercushious is quite extensive, and it is probably the best material for thc purpose, the ottice of the cushion being to receive the end or point of the shuttle, and throw buck the saine. rlhe difficulty in the use of this material, however, is, that the point of the shuttle gradually makes ahole in the leather, which hole lis Often irregular, or at one side of the centre Of the cushion thus rendering, it useless on account of its being bursi or broken open, as described, before it is otherwise worn out.

We do not, of course, claim the leather cushion.

Our invention consists of a device for strengthening the cushion, instelling the different laininie of' leather together, prcventinfc, it from blu-sting out at one side, and, by this means, enabling it to be used until worn quite or nezu'ljY through.

Our improvement consists of a ring of metal, having a Hanne on the inner circuiniiuenee Lf the top or face nails to penetrate the leather of thereof g having, also,

projecting parts. having nails the cushion, and two also.

A is the ring.

a, its flange.

c, the nails.

d, the. projections, also having nails.

The flange laps the leather on the face of the cushion.

The ring ts down over the outside of the cushionedge.

The nails penetrate the cushion, and are clinched on the backside thereof. v

The projections, with their nails, further secure the ung.

he ring itself' is pressed the face of the cushion.

The curved portion included within the ring, forms the cushion proper, and receives the shuttle-point. (See b, iig. 2.)

Thus the leather cushion is so strengthened and colupacted, that it endures for much more time, and wears with more evenness.

Vhat we claim' as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters latcnt, iS-

The ring A, with flange ,nails c, and projections d, also having nails, AWhen applied to a picker-cushion, as herein set forth.

or driven down, even with GEORGE L. RiOHARDSoN. JAMES o. MOODY.

Vitnesses HENRY J. HICKs, WILLIAM B. KNIGHT. 

